DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z March 31, 2015
SMOKE Central Plains: As noted earlier in the morning's smoke text, light density smoke is dominating the region from the prescribed agricultural burns. The smoke is visible through Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa and generally moving NW. SMOKE/DUST: Nevada: A fire broke out this afternoon near the Humboldt State Wildlife Management Area in Nevada. Because the location of this fire is near a rather large dust bed at the Fallon National Wildlife Refuge, the smoke is mixed with large plumes of blowing dust stretching across the state towards Utah. DUST California: As noted earlier in the morning's smoke text, a large mass of foreign blowing dust is visible moving across the Pacific Ocean into California moving south towards Mexico. The dust is quickly leaving the Bay area and approaching the greater LA area. Idaho: An event of blowing dust is visible moving SE in SW Idaho. The plumes are first visible at 0015Z and continue until 0115Z. California/Nevada border: Plumes of blowing dust were visible at the Honey Lake dust bed in California near the Nevada border from 1900Z until sunset. Oegerle As seen earlier today: SMOKE Central Plains: Remnant light smoke from the large number of agricultural and prescribed burns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri yesterday was seen this morning covering southeast Kansas, southern Missouri, far southern Illinois/Indiana and into southwest Ohio and Kentucky. The smoke was drifting to the southeast. The fires have already begun again this morning in the same region and more smoke is being generated. Northern Plains: Remnant light smoke from a wildfire in northwest South Dakota last evening was seen this morning over the eastern Dakotas drifting to the east. DUST California: A large mass of blowing dust which originated in eastern Asia has moved onshore this morning across northern California reaching the Nevada border and as far south as Lake Tahoe and Monterey. The dust extended well offshore reaching to at least the dateline. Ruminski/Kemal THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov